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Kevin Love Cleveland Cavaliers One Center Court Cleveland, Ohio 44115-4001 Hey, Kevin, just wanted to drop you a note to say it's sunny and 72 in Orlando Saturday. Now that I have your attention, everyone knows you can become a free agent after the season. Sign with the Magic. You not only can leave the bitter cold of Cleveland, but you can stop being frozen out of the Cavaliers' offense. It's rather chilly in LeBron James' immense shadow, isn't it? Chris Bosh tried to warn you. The grass isn't always greener, K-Love. By the way, when's the last time you've seen any grass? Let me put this as politely as possible: You once were...

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Kevin Love
Cleveland Cavaliers
One Center Court
Cleveland, Ohio 44115-4001
Hey, Kevin, just wanted to drop you a note to say it's sunny and 72 in Orlando Saturday.
Now that I have your attention, everyone knows you can become a free agent after the...

Orlando Magic rookies Aaron Gordon, Elfrid Payton and Devyn Marble are about to go through an NBA rite of passage: their first back-to-back.
After the Magic host the Detroit Pistons tonight, the team will face the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday night...

The sound of a familiar, raspy voice echoed inside Amway Center on Thursday.
For almost three and a half hours, Stan Van Gundy put his new team, the Detroit Pistons, through drills. He hadn't worked on the arena's main court since May 5, 2012, when his...

Every player reaches some kind of crossroads, and Magic forward Tobias Harris is looking both ways as he steps into the 2014-15 season.
Harris will get an idea how the Magic value him, perhaps before the regular season begins. The deadline for...

The irony is not lost on Otis Smith as he takes on a new job in a new town.
His job: head coach of the Grand Rapids Drive of the NBA's Developmental League.
The town: Grand Rapids, Mich., longtime home of Magic owner Rich DeVos — billionaire,...

Jameer Nelson sat out his fourth consecutive game when the Orlando Magic hosted the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night, but Nelson received some positive news on his sore left knee earlier in the day.
Nelson underwent an MRI exam, and the exam...

CHICAGO — A familiar figure sat along the sidelines as the 2014 NBA Draft Combine wrapped up Friday.
Former Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy — the Detroit Pistons' new president of basketball operations and coach — watched the on-court drills. Later in...

Does Jameer Nelson have a future with the Orlando Magic?
The Magic’s draft-night trade to acquire Louisiana-Lafayette point guard Elfrid Payton seems to indicate that Nelson won’t have a long-term future with the team.
Payton appears all but certain...

Nick Anderson already knows what he wants etched on his tombstone. Somewhere, it's going to say "Orlando Magic."
Retired from basketball since 2002, he feels strongly about what the Magic and the city of Orlando have meant to him.
And that's...

1989-90 Magic: Where are they now?
SG Nick Anderson: Anderson was the Magic's first draft pick and became the franchise's all-time leading scorer before Dwight Howard broke his record. He is beginning his seventh season as a community ambassador with the...

The NBA bills the NBA Development League as its “official minor league,” a place where young players can gain some experience and veteran players coming off injuries can play a few games to get back into basketball shape.
For many NBA teams, the D-League...

The Orlando Magic are confronting their worst nightmare. Dwight Howard has asked for a trade. “You only get one time around,” Howard said Saturday night at Amway Center. “You can’t press the reset button. It’s not ‘Call of Duty,’ where when you die,...

SACRAMENTO — Dwight Howard's request to be traded still stands, and the Orlando Magic's general manager doesn't feel the team has done much to change the superstar's mind. "Nothing has changed," Howard said before the Magic faced the Sacramento...

OKLAHOMA CITY — David Stern sounds unconcerned about the apparent trend of superstars leaving small- or mid-market cities for the bright lights of larger markets. Asked how he wants to see Dwight Howard's situation play out and whether he's concerned...

The Orlando Magic will go into the postseason without their best player.
Dwight Howard is scheduled to have season-ending surgery to repair a herniated disk in his lower back Friday, team officials and Howard’s agent said Thursday night.
Robert Watkins,...

In perhaps the most bizarre scene of an already tumultuous season for the Orlando Magic, coach Stan Van Gundy today claimed that superstar center Dwight Howard has asked the team’s management to fire him.“I know he has,” Van Gundy told reporters after the...

If Dwight Howard has decided he will join the New Jersey Nets via free agency in July, that determination has not been communicated to the Orlando Magic, according to the Magic’s chief executive officer, Alex Martins.“I still believe there is a big...

When the Orlando Magic started searching for a new general manager a month ago, franchise officials sought someone who has experience working for a championship team.The Magic think they've found the right person — even though he's just 30 years old.The...

Sixteen years after Shaquille O’Neal left the Orlando Magic via free agency for the Los Angeles Lakers, another superstar Magic center appears to be headed to Southern California.The Magic, Lakers, Denver Nuggets and Philadelphia 76ers have reached a deal...